Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT02646956
Taste Preferences for Nutritive and Non Nutritive Sweeteners Among Children and Adults
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- —
- Study type
- Observational
- Enrollment
- 82 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Monell Chemical Senses Center · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 7 Years – 60 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
Summary
The goal of the study is to determine whether there are age-, diet- and genetically-related differences in the perception of sweeteners, both nutritive and non-nutritive.
Detailed description
This is an observational 3-day study of children between the ages of 7 and 14 and their mothers. A variety of psychophysical methods determined liking for each of the sweeteners and saliva samples were obtained for genotyping of taste receptor genes. Anthropometric and dietary intake measures were also collected.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| OTHER | sweeteners | Participants tasted a variety of nutritive and nonnutritive sweeteners |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2014-05-01
- Primary completion
- 2015-09-01
- Completion
- 2015-09-01
- First posted
- 2016-01-06
- Last updated
- 2016-01-06
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT02646956. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.